Margaret Rutherford

The true life story of Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972) is in fact much more eccentric than the most famous fictional role she ever played: Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth. Rutherford's version was the very first appearance of Miss Marple on the big screen and it was far removed though from the petite, upper middle-class lady in the detective novels.

Compilation of classic British comedy moments

In this animated children's film, Mother Goose and her fairytale friends must stop a group of sneaky spies.

A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.

A Revolução Russa fez com que vários integrantes da nobreza local fugissem para a China e Hong Kong, que na época era um protetorado inglês. Lá cresceram suas filhas que, apesar de terem títulos nobiliárquicos, precisaram se prostituir para sobreviver. Uma destas mulheres é Natascha (Sophia Loren), condessa de pai russo, que é apresentada ao empresário Ogden Mears (Marlon Brando) quando o navio dele aporta em Hong Kong. Ogden e Harvey (Sydney Chaplin), seu amigo, saem com Natascha e outras mulheres na mesma situação, acreditando que apenas as verão naquele dia. Porém, quando o navio deixa Hong Kong, Ogden encontra Natascha escondida no guarda-roupas de sua cabine. Ela deseja ir para os Estados Unidos, onde poderá recomeçar sua vida, mas para tanto precisa da ajuda de Ogden para não ser descoberta como clandestina. Inicialmente reticente, aos poucos Ogden aceita a idéia de ajudá-la.

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

A documentary-style TV programme made by NBC in which Margaret Rutherford and her husband Stringer Davis visit three so-called haunted mansions.

Depois que Miss Jane Marple (Dame Margaret Rutherford) é nomeada curadora de uma embarcação de treinamento da marinha mercante, uma curadora é envenenada e os oficiais do navio são assassinados depois que ela embarca.

Quando Miss Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) se junta a uma companhia teatral depois que um chantagista é assassinado, vários membros da tropa também são despachados por este misterioso assassino.

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

Miss Marple e Stringer são testemunhas da morte por ataque cardíaco de idosos, ricos, Enderby. No entanto, eles têm dúvidas sobre o que aconteceu. A polícia não acredita neles, levando Miss Marple a investigar novamente por si mesma.

Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.

Quando Miss Jane Marple (Margaret Rutherford) relata testemunhar um assassinato pela janela de um trem que passava, a Polícia a dispensa como uma solteirona pontuda quando nenhum traço do crime pode ser encontrado.

Na época da Invasão da Normandia, um soldado americano é chamado a representar um coronel britânico para confundir os espiões e assassinos nazistas em Londres. O soldado americano Ernie Williams, reconhecidamente um molenga, tem uma estranha semelhança com o coronel britânico MacKenzie. Williams, também um mestre de imitação e disfarce, é convocado para representar o Coronel, aparentemente para permitir que o Coronel faça uma viagem secreta para o Oriente. O que não é contado para Williams é que o coronel recentemente foi alvo de assassinos. Depois que o avião do Coronel pousa no oriente, o plano muda e Williams mantém o disfarce para confundir os nazistas até o dia D.

Quando Stanley Windrush deixa o Exército, vê o seu futuro como um executivo na indústria. Infelizmente, nem tudo corre bem e a indústria pode passar muito bem sem a contribuição de um idiota simpático como Stanley. Em desespero, este procura os conselhos do seu tio Bertram, o director de uma fábrica de armamento, que planeia um negócio desonesto para enriquecer depressa. Stanley vai trabalhar para o seu tio e sem querer destrói o esquema elaborado e fraudulento.

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who appears to be entwined with the reptile. He soon discovers that Daisy is tame and seems to be the way to Moira's heart.

A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.

Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.

When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.

Algernon Moncrieff fica surpreso ao descobrir que seu afluente amigo - que ele conhece como "Ernest" - na verdade se chama Jack Worthing. Jack criou seu alter ego para escapar de suas obrigações em sua propriedade rural, onde tem sob seus cuidados Cecily Cardew. Cecily acredita que o desconhecido Ernest é um irmão caprichoso de Jack e está interessada em seu estilo de vida libertino. Algernon, vendo uma oportunidade, assume a identidade de Ernest e sorrateiramente começa a cortejar Cecily. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction for his castle

In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.

A young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He is hired to injure a leading politician and starts to get involved with a girl he uses to provoke the challenge. One newspaper, hostile to the politician, headlines the story of the impending duel asking who this Madame X is. Problem is, she is in fact the daughter of the paper's proprietor if only he knew it.

Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.

Adaptado de uma peça de Noel Coward, Charles e sua segunda esposa Ruth, são assombrados pelo fantasma de sua primeira esposa, Elvira. A Medium Madame Arcati tenta ajudar as coisas entrando em contato com o fantasma. Para obter ideias para um novo livro, o escritor Charles e sua ingênua segunda esposa Ruth, marcam com a mística Madame Arcati, uma sessão espírita. O resultado infeliz é que a primeira esposa de Charles, Elvira, retorna do além-túmulo para fazer de sua vida uma miséria. Ruth também fica cada vez mais irritado com sua rival sobrenatural, mas Madame Arcati é quem no final, com sua sagacidade, consegue resolver as coisas.

While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

Tiny Fox-Collier and her son, Tony, are broke. A cheery and handsome young man about town, Tony knows he can rely on his mother for a brainwave to save them from utter destitution. This she has: a visit is scheduled to the Irish country estate of her old flame Sir Richard Furze, now a wealthy widower with two daughters. But while Tiny is determined to see her son marry the beautiful but haughty Joan, it seems Tony only has eyes for Joan’s spirited younger sister, Baby.

On board a luxury liner, young Barbara Standish attempts to smuggle stolen jewels from France to America

A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.

A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}